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thephatmaster

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Registered: 2021-08-27

Posts: 18

Is there a working touchscreen browser? (gnome wayland)

Hello,

Is there a touch compatible browser available for gnome / wayland

I'm considering distro-hopping to Arch on my Surface go. I use Arch on another machine, but decided on debian + gnome + wayland on the Go as it seemed like a turnkey solution.

What I can't find in Debian's repos is a browser that works in tablet mode (e.g. just with touch input, no keyboard connected).

When I say "working" I mean has *all* of the folowing:

- has a window that can be manipulated, opened closed etc in portrait and landscape mode;

- has finger scroll

- has pinch zoom

- has finger text selection

I've tried the stock browsers (FF ESR and Gnome Browser) + Chromium and Midori - they are all missing one or more of the above

Does with a similar setup (with an Arch base) have any suggestions for me?

matse

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Registered: 2011-04-27

Posts: 299

Re: Is there a working touchscreen browser? (gnome wayland)

Hi,

did you try setting:

MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1

I have a convertible with arch and dimly remember that firefox worked pretty fine with this option - but at the moment I don't have access to it to test it.

Greetings

matse